Tree cutting bus

[scotspine1]

That's mighty odd!

 

Seeing as your from Louisiana, let me explain.....

 

The British are a sentimental lot, they look back fondly to the days when Britain was a nice place to live and everybody was polite and pleasant to each other circa 1950.

 

Watch this video to see what British people used to be like -

 

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The tree cutting bus is attempt to recreate the Britain of the 1950s. Why?

 

Here is Britain today -

 

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[b101uk]

You just need a tower wagon as would be used on catenaries

[Rupe]

Swindon Borough Council had one years ago, its been scrapped now. It was available to hire by other councils, and when you went to collect it they would hoist your chipper onto the top deck and lash it down with ratchet straps. Then as you went along you could chip as you go and either fire the woodchip over the side onto the verge or fire it into a sort of funnel that let it fall into a container built into the lower deck.

 

Or you could stack debris and wait for a suitable place and chip it over the side then. Brilliant!

[Rupe]

 

Watch this video to see what British people used to be like -

[Rupe]

 

Watch this video to see what British people used to be like -

 

See what French People used to be like!!!! Four blokes bringing two girls home in a trailer!

[MasterBlaster]

Seeing as your from Louisiana, let me explain.....

 

Yea, we're backwoods like that. We're not big on using busses for treework. We simply send a bucket truck with a chipper, or a man with a power pruner on a flatbed truck.

 

We don't transport citizens with our chipper truck, and the public transportation system doesn't do treework. We've a deal worked out.

[Big dog]

Sounds good in principle and i'm sure that it is effective but i doubt that its practical when it comes to good practice. Probably not much chance of getting good pruning cuts, it would look like stub city, and you know how we all hate stubs!!

[Tom Dunlap]

M...obile

E...elevated

W...ork

P..latform

 

Sounds like the perfect description of the chipbus

 

Adding a top-loading chipper on the back with a large intake funnel would finish it off.

 

If more side-reach were needed side platforms could be added that tipped out using hydraulics. Heck, with some structural support inside a boom platform could be configured. super simple!

 

Workshop downbelow with range for tea/coffee. Bunks for overnight work...options are endless!

 

Blaming the bus for making bad cuts isn't fair. Blame the operator not the tool

[kimtree]

novel idea!wouldnt work here you'd get electrocuted:thumbdown:

[MasterBlaster]

What, the bus is insulated?